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SOH Team Project - Grumman Tracker, Trader, Tracer

The superb birds, all those beautiful liveries , the awesome sound (a real masterpiece, Nigel). It is such a fun flying these pieces of art everytime I want to fly another type I have to find an excuse for myself not to fly one of the Grumman "7". I think I'm hooked! ;-)
Thanks everyone for spoiling me.

Cheers,
Maarten
 
Hello Lads, first things first, Congratulations, drinks and all these sort of things to Milton and Team for another magnificent bird. :guinness::guinness::icon29::medals::salute::applause::applause::applause:

Got a problem though: I cannot make the Autopilot work at all, the position of the switches change position, lights blink, etc but it does not engage NAV or GPS. tried to change it installing the Manfred's Constellation radio suite and will keep altitude and heading but again, does not engage NAV or GPS, also the DME will not work.

I cannot find the manual either, Milton said it was somewhere in the thread but cannot find it (am I thick or what! :icon_lol:)

Can somebody give me an idea as of where to look? Or what I am doing wrong? I like to fly it by hand but from time to time AP is useful.

Thanks in advance Chaps!!
 
Duckie said:
Progress. Thought I'd never get the top of the chevron on the back of the nacelle to match up accross textures! WHEW! Almost done now, bit more weathering to do on the wings, then the docs and it'll be ready for upload. Then quick to follow will be one each from the sister Squadrons, VS-72 and 73.

View attachment 60887
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Absolutely gorgeous!
 
Ascua02 said:
Hello Lads, first things first, Congratulations, drinks and all these sort of things to Milton and Team for another magnificent bird. :guinness::guinness::icon29::medals::salute::applause::applause::applause:

Got a problem though: I cannot make the Autopilot work at all, the position of the switches change position, lights blink, etc but it does not engage NAV or GPS. tried to change it installing the Manfred's Constellation radio suite and will keep altitude and heading but again, does not engage NAV or GPS, also the DME will not work.

I cannot find the manual either, Milton said it was somewhere in the thread but cannot find it (am I thick or what! :icon_lol:)

Can somebody give me an idea as of where to look? Or what I am doing wrong? I like to fly it by hand but from time to time AP is useful.

Thanks in advance Chaps!!
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You do not say which of the 6 released aircraft you are flying, or if in FS9 or FSX, but I just tried the E-1B, C-1A, and S2F-3 and they all worked for me.
Maybe I have something different from you?

So, did you set up a flight plan to fly GPS?
Did you activate the AP on the console once at altitude?
Did you select the GPS/Nav switch on the console?

That's really all you have to do.

If you you disengage the GPS/Nav switch, then you can trim manually on the console for pitch and heading.
Does that work?

More details please.

What does your Radio section look like in the aircraft.cfg?
 
New C-1A WIP

Working on a COD repaint. Still have the nacelles and cowlings to do and some adjustments on the fuselage.

Dave
 
Thanks for the answer Milton, here are the details:

Using FS9
The models I'm talking about are the S2A-CDF and the C1A (original, not installed the cargo yet).
Radio and Autopilot in the Aircraft.CFG as per the update you posted for the C1A in both.
The flight plan was set in the FS9 flight planning.
Normally I take off manually and when I receive the instructions from ATC (normally still on runway heading and starting to climb) I engage AP in the console, the NAV function and then GPS for lateral control. Climb control will depend in the type of AP in the aircraft in question.
No problems reported trimming the aircraft.
AP engaged in the console.
Tried both setting the NAV/GPS switch in the console or the popup electrical panel.

That is about it, I'll try to reinstall them both to see if there is any change. Maybe it is a problem with my rig!

Once again Milton, thanks for the aircraft and sorry about the nag. :salute: :applause:

Saludos
 
Hi Milton
Yessir! copied the new panel and updated radio and AP sections in the CFG.

Been trying again today, went manually on course and altitude, then by switching every thing off in the AP including the master, then setting the AP for NAV/GPS and the selector in GPS and THEN switch on the master for the AP it did hold course for a leg, on reaching the next WP, the Aircraft flinched and never recover the signal again. This happened flying the S2A-CDF in FS9.
I'm starting to wonder if there is something going with FS9 itself (fairly old installation) but everything seems to be OK with the rest of AC, funny puzzle.

Oh well, I'll keep trying to isolate the problem.
 
Hi there,

Same problem here. Tried the same as Wing_Z but to no avail.
Please Ferondoe, could you solve this problem? It just looks too nice not to have it showing up.
Thank you very much in advance.

Cheers,
Maarten
 
As it says in the description, these textures are in 2048 X 2048 pixels.
I assume that they need re-sizing to work in FS9.
 
stuartcox said:
As it says in the description, these textures are in 2048 X 2048 pixels.
I assume that they need re-sizing to work in FS9.
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Wow! Thank you Stuart! :applause: That did the trick. (resizing to 1024x1024)

Now what I did was going to an editing programme (in my case Irfan View), resizing and saving as bitmap. Then going to DXTBmp, open the same bitmaps and save them as 32-888 bitmaps. And yoho!.... :jump:

And Ferondoe: Yes, your repaint is beautiful! Thank you very much! :applause::applause::applause:

Cheers,
Maarten
 
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